[FIXED] Minimalistic Real-Time Plotting in Python

Issue

I've been using python extensively to extract data from various external pieces of equipment (ranging from arduinos to oscilloscopes), and I'm looking for a simplistic way to plot stuff.

There's already some answers to similar questions on stack overflow: What is the best real time plotting widget for wxPython?

With most pointing to this fine piece of code by Eli Bendersky http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2008/08/01/matplotlib-with-wxpython-guis/

But the scope of the code is far more complicated that what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something rather minimalistic that just plots the data in real-time as it streams from a source -- it doesn't need a GUI, radio buttons, knobs and sliders, or anything like that.

It seems that solutions such as calling pylab.plot() or pylab.show() in a loop doesn't seem to give the correct behavior.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Solution

Besides the matplotlib examples you've found, there's also wx.lib.plot and several answers here: http://wxpython-users.1045709.n5.nabble.com/real-time-data-plots-td2344816.html

Answered By - Mike Driscoll